[bookport] Re: braille translation mistakes

  • From: "Shannon A. Reece" <shazza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 08:58:59 -0800

This I can surely agree with.  I understand why programmers wrote them this
way, but it's unnecessary.
Shannon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Toews" <DogRiver@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:42 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: braille translation mistakes


> My preference would be for synthesizers to get out of the
> abbreviation-expansion business altogether. Some on this list may dispute
> my claim, but I think I'm more able to intelligently interpret these
> things than a computer is.
>
> Bruce
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> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Shannon A. Reece wrote:
>
> > Absolutely Sarah.  I can understand Crystal's irritation with hearing DR
> > referred to as drive when it's obvious that DR. in the case of her book
was
> > doctor.  But with any abbreviation there is more than one meaning and
even a
> > sighted person reading DR translates it to the appropriate meaning in
her
> > mind.  Hearing a wrong translation by the tripple talk for abbreviations
> > doesn't bother me at all because I do what any sighted person would do
and
> > translate them right even if the synthesizer speaks them wrong, but
> > beside(s), and for the have only one meaning and should be fixed if
> > possible.
> > Shannon
> > From: "Sarah Cranston" <cranston.sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [bookport] Re: braille translation mistakes
> >
> >
> > The problem with DR is that sometimes it's Doctor, and sometimes it's
Drive.
> > That's the main problem with Braille back-translation.  That is why
beside,
> > besides, and "for the" will be easy to fix, they don't pull double duty.
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes, and don't forget to add Dr. to the list.  I just finished reading a
> > book where the main character was a Dr., and, of course, was constantly
read
> > as Drive.
> > Crystal
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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